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How to Train Tempi Changes

Tempi changes are an essential aspect of advanced dressage, showcasing a horse’s balance, straightness, and responsiveness. Training them requires attention to detail, patience, and the use of strategic exercises to ensure quality and consistency….
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A person wearing a helmet and riding gear is practicing walk pirouettes on a chestnut horse with white leg wraps in a sandy outdoor arena, surrounded by trees and dressage markers.

How to Ride Walk Pirouettes

Ready to start teaching your horse walk pirouettes? The walk pirouette or turn on the haunches is a great exercise to work on shoulder mobility and coordination with your horse. Practicing your walk pirouettes…
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A person in riding gear practices dressage training with a chestnut horse in an outdoor arena. Text reads, Dressage Training: Less is More.

Dressage Training: Less is more and boiling frogs!

We often hear about lightness, self-carriage, engagement. This is all about getting your horse more sensitive to light aids. So you can ride with invisible aids, with your horse doing more and you doing…
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A person guides a gray horse performing advanced movements like passage and pirouettes in a riding arena. Trees and a blue sky are in the background. Text reads: Training Upper Level Movements In-Hand.

In Hand work: How to Train Piaffe, Passage, and Pirouettes

In Hand work: How to Train Piaffe, Passage, and Pirouettes In hand work means that you are working with a while you are on the ground (either with or without a rider), working typically…
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A person rides a chestnut horse outdoors, wearing a helmet and patterned shirt. Blue boxes with white text read “Dressage Rider” and “Dressage Mindset.” Trees and a blue sky complete this elegant equestrian scene.

Dressage Mindset

Dressage is a passion, but not one that can be picked up and put down. Do you have a growth or fixed mindset? Fixed: You think “Some riders are born more talented than others….
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A rider in formal equestrian attire guides a brown horse during a Horse Show, outdoors with trees and patriotic decorations. Bold blue text reads “A Day at the Horse Show.”.

Day at the Horse Show

This past weekend I had the privilege to attend the California Dressage Society Annual Horse Show. Come behind the scenes with me as I take you through a few of the interesting things I…
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Close-up of a shiny chestnut horse’s neck and head with neatly done Dressage Braids, wearing a bridle, with blue banners reading “Dressage” at the top left and “Braids 101” at the bottom right.

Perfect Dressage Braids 101

>If you’ve never shown, or haven’t in a long time, braiding can be a daunting task. I wanted to take a minute to show you how it doesn’t have to be! This is how…
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A rider on a black horse in an indoor arena, wearing formal riding attire, faces unexpected competition mishaps. Text on the image reads: Show Day Gone Wrong.

When S**t Happens in the Show Ring

No matter how good of a rider we are, things can and will go wrong. And murphy’s law says that it will go wrong in the show ring…in front of everyone. It can be…
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A rider in a blue top and helmet rides a chestnut horse mid-stride in an outdoor arena. Text reads “Let’s Ride” and “Third Level Test 1.” The horse, wearing white wraps and a saddle pad, demonstrates movements from this dressage test.

Ride with me! I walk through the “how to” for riding through Third Level Test 1.

Watching the video is the best way to enjoy the full experience, but here are some spark notes if you don’t have time to watch the whole thing. -keep the judge between your horse’s…
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